Rise of the Lykins
Charting Unseen Paths, Capturing Untold Stories.
My Books
As a historian documenting the vanishing built heritage of the American South, I research and photograph the abandoned structures and forgotten communities that still mark Mississippi’s landscape. My books offer carefully researched accounts of these places—preserving their architectural character, their human histories, and the quiet evidence of change they contain. This work includes my four-volume series on Abandoned Mississippi: the South, West, East and North volumes are already in print.
Abandoned North Mississippi
Available March 15th at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Octavia. Or anywhere you buy books.
Abandoned North Mississippi is the fourth and final installment in the Abandoned Mississippi series by Jason Lykins, bringing his statewide exploration to a powerful close. In this volume, Lykins turns his attention to the northern reaches of Mississippi, documenting abandoned churches, forgotten schools, and silent industrial sites that once served as the backbone of their communities. Having lived up and down the eastern seaboard and in Canada, where much of his family still resides, Mississippi has been home since the late 1980s. That perspective gives the work both an outsider’s sense of discovery and a resident’s appreciation for the state’s deep, often overlooked past.
Coming soon...
Lost Louisiana invites readers into the haunting world of Louisiana’s forgotten places, where decay tells powerful stories of the past.
Photographer/explorer Jason Lykins begins alone, venturing into crumbling prisons, derelict industrial sites, and overgrown bayou ruins. His solitary explorations uncover beauty in abandonment and history in the shadows. Then, a message from fellow explorer DeadlyKnot changes everything. A reluctant first meeting inside a decaying New Orleans nursing home sparks an unlikely collaboration—and the birth of Krewe du Exploration.
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